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19th Century

Poetic Biography: “Dizzy in Westminster” by Elaine Feinstein

15 questions to ask of popular history

Canning’s Riddle

Heinrich Heine foresees the fragility of the cross in the face of Hitler’s Thor

Inconsistencies and Impositions in Victorian New York: the dangers of Christian presumptions

For the sheer pleasure of it: evocative prose

Under a Bath sky

Petina Gappah on John Simpson’s Head of a Negro

Age of Wonder gems 4: Shelley & Walpole on Hot Air Balloons

Age of Wonder gems: 2. Mungo Park in Africa

The infectiousness of wonder: Richard Holmes and the romance of science